Tony Jefferson

The selection of evidence and the avoidance of racialism: A critique of the parliamentary select committee on race relations and immigration

police and the whofe community and tensions peculiar to the police and the coloured community. How far should the police observe this distinction? Their dilemma is plain. Ideally they are expected to treat all citizens alike. To what extent should they make allowance for the different expectations, culture and outlook of the coloured population when dealing with them? These questions did not (perhaps they could not) receive a direct answer when repeatedly posed by us in our inquiry. Accusations that the police discriminate against immigrants can shade by fine degrees into criticism that they do not make sufficient allowance for the difference in outlook. That could, in turn, expose them to charges of another kind.